Vanguardia

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Called to testify before a government media oversight commission, editorial cartoonist Xavier Bonilla--known by his penname Bonil--showed up with a pair of four-foot-long mock pencils. But rather than having a small eraser on the tip, one of Bonil's giant pencils was nearly all eraser.

That's how Juan Carlos Calderón, editor of the newsmagazine Vanguardia, described the June 28
closing of the newsweekly that for eight years published hard-hitting
investigations about public officials and faced frequent government harassment.
Yet the final days of Vanguardia were
almost as controversial as its stories.

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Mexico City, April 25, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists
joins journalists with the Mexican daily Vanguardia in calling on
authorities to launch an efficient and thorough investigation into the murder
of photographer Daniel Martínez Balzaldúa.

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In the wake of President Rafael Correa's
landslide re-election
on Sunday, many Ecuadoran reporters are bracing for another four years of
conflict with his left-leaning government. Neither side claims to relish
the prospect, but continued clashes seem inevitable given the bad
blood that has developed between them.

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One
result of President Rafael Correa's high-profile campaign to demonize the
country's private media can be seen on the desk of José Velásquez, news manager
at Teleamazonas, a private Quito television station often critical of the
government. Among the documents piled high on his desk are lawsuits, which used
to be a rare thing. Encouraged by Correa, who has personally sued
newspapers and journalists, Velásquez says, the subjects of Teleamazonas news
reports are now filing between two and five lawsuits per month against the
station.

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New York, May 31,
2011--Vanguardia, the oldest and
largest newspaper in the city Saltillo, in the northern Mexican state of
Coahuila, was the target of a hand grenade attack on Sunday, according to local
press reports. No injuries were reported.

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New York, January 18,
2011--Ecuadoran authorities have been holding computers and equipment
belonging to the critical newsmagazine Vanguardia
since a police raid on its offices a month ago. The Committee to Protect
Journalists has concluded the seizure was reprisal for the magazine's editorial
positions and calls on authorities to return the property.